Iain Percy

Iain Bryden Percy OBE ( born March 21, 1976 in Southampton, Hampshire ) is a British sailor. As a two- time Olympic gold medalist, he is one of the most successful British Olympic sailor. Percy also was a member of the British team at the 2005 America's Cup.

Sporting successes

Percy started for the first time at the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney in 2000 and finished in the Olympic Sailing Shore in Rushcutters Bay immediately took first place in the Finn - Dinghy. He received the gold medal in a ceremony on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

In the next Games in Athens in 2004, he raced in the open two-man Star boat and took in Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre, located between the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex and Glyfada, together with Steve Mitchell sixth place. The same team won the bronze in the same year at the sailing European Championship gold medal at the World Sailing Championships in 2005.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Iain Percy went again in the Star class at the start, this time with a new partner, with Andrew Simpson. The team reached the Gold Medal at the International Sailing Center in Qingdao.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the UK both won in the same boat class a silver medal. In between, she won the Star boat in Rio de Janeiro, the 2010 World Cup.

Percy is a member and trains regularly in the Iceland Hayling Sailing Club ( HISC ) ​​in Sandy Point on Hayling Iceland, an island off the south coast of England. He was also a 2005 member of the crew, who in 2005 at the Louis Vuitton Cup took part for the UK, the qualifying event for the America 's Cup.

Honors

In recognition of his first Olympic gold medal in 2005 Percy was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE) in 2009 and after the second Olympic victory to the Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE).